Margie Adam

Margie Adam
Margie Adam
Born 1947
Lompoc, California
Occupations Musician and Composer
Website margieadam.com

Margie Adam (born 1947 in Lompoc, California, U.S.) is an American musician and composer. Adam is one of the pioneers of the Women's Music movement.

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Early life and education

Margie Adam was born in 1947 in Lompoc, California.[1][2] Her father was a newspaper publisher who composed music on the side, and her mother was a classical pianist.[3] Adam began playing the piano as a child.[2]

In 1973, while attending the Sacramento Women's Music Festival, she performed during the open mic session and began her career as a professional musician. Soon, she was involved in the Women's Music movement, a school of music which uses the art form as a means of political and social as well as artistic expression.[2]

Music career

Her first album, Margie Adam, was promoted with a fifty city tour which concluded with a performance of her song, "We Shall Go Forth" at the National Women's Conference in Houston. The song quickly became an anthem for the lesbian-feminist movement and is now part of the Political History archives in the Smithsonian Museum.[2][4] During the early eighties Adams performed at various concerts and fundraisers for feminist candidates and causes.[5]

Adam composed the Peter, Paul and Mary song, Best Friend (The Unicorn Song).[5]

Adam returned to writing music in 1990 and went on a national tour in 1992 to support her new album, Another Place.[5] In 1996 she embarked on the Three of Hearts tour with fellow pianists Liz Story and Barbara Higbie. A tour to raise awareness of the service feminist bookstores made to the women's community was conducted in 1998.[2]

Margie Adam continues to compose and perform at various venues across the U.S. and Canada. More recent work includes, Avalon (2001), Best of Margie Adam (2005), and Portal 2005.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Margie Adam, conference performer". The Power of Women's Voices Conference. Northampton, MA: Smith College. 2007. http://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/conference07/conf-MargieAdam.html. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d e "Margie Adam". WomenArts Artist Profiles. San Francisco, CA: WomenArts. 2009. http://www.womenarts.org/network/profile_974.html. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
  3. ^ "California singer combines music and opinion". Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage: The McClatchy Company). September 8, 1983. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XR8rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t54FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4249,3673841&dq=margie-adam&hl=en. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
  4. ^ Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Penguin Books Ltd, 1991, page 222. ISBN 0231074883
  5. ^ a b c Baker, Greg (June 8, 1994). "Come Together". Miami New Times (Miami Florida: Village Voice Media). http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1994-06-08/music/come-together/. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 

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